As America enjoys its Thanksgiving vacation weekend, Donald Trump is attacking Obamacare and vowing to extremity it and instrumentality wellness security sum distant from millions.
Trump posted connected Truth Social, “The outgo of Obamacare is retired of control, plus, it’s not bully Healthcare. I’m earnestly looking astatine alternatives. We had a mates of Republican Senators who campaigned for 6 years against it, and past raised their hands not to terminate it. It was a debased constituent for the Republican Party, but we should ne'er springiness up!”
According to the Department of Health and Human Services, 40 cardinal Americans are covered nether Affordable Care Act plans.
To truly recognize what happened to healthcare nether Trump, let’s look astatine what has happened to children’s healthcare coverage since Biden took office, “Recent nationalist survey information amusement that the uninsured complaint among children (ages 0-17) fell from 6.4 percent successful precocious 2020 to 4.5 percent successful the 3rd 4th of 2022, suggesting 1.4 cardinal children person gained coverage. These gains person astir erased the nonaccomplishment successful children’s sum that occurred betwixt 2016 and 2020.”
More than 2.3 cardinal Americans, including 726,000 children, mislaid their healthcare sum nether Trump.
Trump intentionally sabotaged the ACA and allowed security companies to rise premiums by 15% with nary mentation needed. Trump made it harder for radical to enroll successful ACA plans and accrued the outgo of those plans by an mean of $404.
As a 2nd act, Trump wants to get escaped of the Affordable Care Act. America already knows what Trump’s ACA replacement program is. It’s nothing.
Donald Trump’s acquisition to 40 cardinal Americans this vacation play is to committedness that helium volition instrumentality distant their healthcare if elected.
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